Climate modeller
| Highest | $6,350 / mo · United States |
|---|---|
| Experience | 2–4 yrs |
| Degree | Required |
| First paycheck | 3 to 4 years PhD |
Pay in the destination countries
Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.
| Country | Monthly |
|---|---|
| United StatesTOEFL 80–100 · $10–70k | $6,350max |
| SwitzerlandIELTS 6.5 · CHF 0.9–8k | $6,250 |
| NorwayIELTS 6.0–6.5 · NOK 130–260k | $6,200 |
| GermanyIELTS 6.5 · €0–3k | $6,100 |
| FinlandIELTS 6.0–6.5 · €6–18k | $6,100 |
| DenmarkIELTS 6.5 · DKK 45–135k | $6,100 |
What does the day look like?
You configure and run global Earth-system models such as UKESM, CESM, ICON and IFS-based systems, prepare coordinated experiments for CMIP, and downscale output with CORDEX regional models or statistical methods. You submit batch jobs to shared HPC clusters with Slurm, post-process NetCDF output in Python with xarray, dask and Iris plus CDO and NCO operators, develop model code in Fortran, track everything in git, evaluate runs against observations and reanalysis datasets, and write papers, proposals and technical notes plus present at EGU and AGU conferences.
Most of the day is desk computing with code, model output and statistics, with effectively no fieldwork and no instrument handling. Hours are standard laboratory hours with no shift, night or on-call rota. Crunch periods fall around intercomparison submission deadlines and paper revisions. Night rotas for operational forecasting belong to the forecaster job, not this post.
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